Fox News host labels Robin Williams ‘such a coward’ over alleged suicide

[DonViejo]

Fox News host Shepard Smith on Tuesday asserted that actor Robin Williams was “such a coward” for allegedly committing suicide.

At the conclusion of a touching special report that aired just hours after Williams died, Smith seemed to become almost angry while thinking about the actor’s children.

The Fox News host noted that Williams had once told a story about his daughter, Zelda, who asked him to read a book to her in his normal voice.

“One of the children he so loved, one of the children grieving tonight,” Smith said. “Because their father killed himself in a fit of depression.”

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[TwilightGardener]

1. What a jerk. The guy mentally suffered and died, why attack him?

[bullwinkle428]

2. Fucker. And we sometimes like to think of him as the one lone exception

of decency over at Fox News. So much for that.

[RKP5637]

5. I just thought the same as I read this ... how utterly insensitive to what one in depression endures

Basically, a very stupid and ignorant comment he made. Guess he really does have a good fit at Fox News.

[riqster]

3. Mental health is stigmatized. What an asshole.

[randome]

4. "There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." Leonard Cohen, Anthem (1992)

Smith is cracked, that's for sure.
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[safeinOhio]

6. I think ever human has issues.

The most judgmental hide theirs the deepest.

[wheniwasincongress]

7. Didn't expect this from Shep of all Fox people

What a way to stigmatize depression. What a way to, almost knowingly, choose to not understand or care about depression.

[Paladin]

8. I wonder what Britt Hume thinks of Smith's heartless comments.

Hume (a long-time Fox performer) lost a son to suicide in 1998.

[HangOnKids]

12. My first thought as well

Callous comment by Smith.

[packman]

9. Sorry, disagree

There is anger when a beloved member of your family, someone who is dear to you even if it is not in your immediate family, commits suicide. A dear friend of mine took his life a few months after his wife died and I was first shocked, then sad and then angry he had done so. Even today, years after, there is still that emotional debris he left behind in his family and friends . Shepard felt a legitimate emotion in labeling Robin. The anger is understandable and Robin's children will be grieving and asking themselves ,"why?" for many nights placing a emotional burden on them for the rest of their lives.

Shepard Smith showed a lack of understanding about the deep, dark pit of depression. Some can pull themselves out of it, others live in it, still others cannot face that smothering blanket of despair and take their lives for relief. For this he needs criticism, but I can understand his poor choice of words in calling Robin a coward and his concern about the after effects on Robin's children.

[tanyev]

13. And Robin William's loved ones have the right to be angry as they work through the grieving process.

Shep Smith, not so much.

[HangOnKids]

16. You understand the use of the word coward?

I get that you couched it by calling it a poor choice of words, but NOBODY, especially an asshole with a microphone has the right to call Robin a coward. Robin's children are not the concern of Shep Smith, and IF they were, he should have kept his mouth shut when speaking ill of their beloved DAD!

As for your comment "Shepard felt a legitimate emotion in labeling Robin" that is total hooey and a piss poor sentence.

[packman]

30. Bite me

[Skittles]

32. that really says everything we need to know about you

[packman]

33. You don't "need" to know anything about me

As one who had dear friends and relatives take their lives, I experienced bewilderment and anger at them. Shepard Smith was pissed and emotional and angry. You, I, and many millions of people throughout the world are an example of the collateral damage left behind by people who take their lives. Are you angry at me? Why - because I understand how raw that experience is on the people left behind? Because I understand the vacuum that is created in the lives of the living when someone takes that final step and leaves us. There is an emptiness there which you shout into every day. You don't know ANYTHING about me and your post is condescending and you should apologize.

[Skittles]

34. LOLOL

apologize to you? "Bite me"

[Skittles]

31. I disagree

it's disgusting trashing Robin Williams in such a callous manner and I say this as a daughter of a man who killed himself

[Shivering Jemmy]

10. attacking someone who has killed themselves

is a pointless waste of time.

They aren't going to get your message.

[Jefferson23]

11. I am sure what this idiot just said will help Robin's daughter. Fucking callous bastard, I don't

understand why people think this guy is the voice of reason at Fox news.

[PoutrageFatigue]

14. Fuck that guy.

Twice.

[lunasun]

15. Labeling Smith a stupid asshole

[Coventina]

17. And hearing their father called a coward will be so comforting to his children!

People who know nothing about mental illness should not be allowed to comment about it on national TV.

[magical thyme]

18. Shepard Smith is an ignorant asshole.

He can burn in hell. Who the fuck is he to judge anybody.

[shenmue]

19. Ugh

Big step back for him.

[obxhead]

20. Reason 7,982,487

to HATE Fox news and every fucking person that works there.

[GeorgeGist]

21. Yo, Shepard, was my brother a coward ...

for dying during a fit of cancer?

[closeupready]

22. Oh, the irony. Clearly, SS knows what cowardice is.

[LordGlenconner]

26. Careful

I made the same point in another thread and was bullied by another poster into taking it down. Apparently some people actually like Shep Smith here and have no fucking clue what irony is. Go figure.

[closeupready]

27. Ok, thanks. But at least you know what I'm getting at.

[LordGlenconner]

28. Oh I get it and it's a righteous point to make

I think most people who aren't complete effing morons understand that.

[mimi85]

23. Someone at Fox will surely come up with a reason

why it's PBO's fault. Along with Iraq, the Malaysian airlines tragedies, Syria, all the recent earthquakes, horrible storms and Ebola.

[progressoid]

24. Shep...

[deafskeptic]

25. Now I am outraged! N/T

[red dog 1]

29. Shepherd Smith is the coward, not Robin Williams

What do you expect from Faux News?


NPR's "Fresh Air" re-played a 2006 interview with Robin Williams today.

http://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339823090/robin-williams-in-looking-for-laughter-you-have-to-be-deeply-honest/